CNN's Brian Stelter calls Trump Administration’s coronavirus response a '9/11-level failure'

CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter compared the federal government's coronavirus response to the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

On his Sunday show, Reliable Sources, Stelter identified areas where President Trump altered his tone and public approach to the coronavirus. "He is still getting lots of facts wrong at these briefings. One day he said scarves work better than masks. One day he said airplane and train travelers are being given very strong tests for the virus before departure and after arrival. It’s not true. Maybe it should be true, but it’s not," Stelter began.

The host shifted to identify "government’s delays and dysfunction," claiming it was a central story as the COVID-19 virus has infected more than 1.2 million people globally and nearly 338,000 in the United States.

"There’s a whole lot of revisionist history being penned right now, a lot of digging of the memory hole. The pro-Trump media is trying to bury the Trump White House’s failures to fully protect and prepare the country from this pandemic. In the immortal words of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, ‘There’s no reason to go backwards and figure out tick-tocks of what happened when. We’ve got a crisis on our hands.’ Right. And the crisis is why we need to look backwards and learn from mistakes and make sure they are never made again," Stelter said.

"Look at this Associated Press headline from just today: 'U. S. 'wasted' months before preparing for viral pandemic.' This was a 9/11-level failure of the federal government. I... (Read more)

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